| HD-51735-13 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Regents of the University of California, Riverside | FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems, Phase II | 5/1/2013 - 5/31/2015 | $60,000.00 | Conrad | | Rudolph | | | | Regents of the University of California, Riverside | Riverside | CA | 92521-0001 | USA | 2013 | Arts, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | The refinement of additional techniques for using facial recognition software to help with the identification of human subjects in portraiture for art historical research.
Before the advent of photography, portraits were, almost by definition, depictions of people who were important in their own worlds. But, as a walk through almost any major museum will show, a large number of these unidentified portraits from before the nineteenth century--many of them great works of art--have lost the identities of their subjects through the fortunes of time. Traditionally, identification of many of these portraits has been limited to often quite variable personal opinion. FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems) proposes to establish the initial potential of face recognition technology to this highly subjective aspect of art history while at the same time retaining the human eye as the final arbiter. |